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 ___This is still a work in progress___
 
-This project fetches and processes `code.json` files and indexes them in Elasticsearch. This is ment to be the main harvester for [Code.gov](https://code.gov) and the [Code.gov API](https://github.com/gsa/code-gov-api).
+This project fetches and processes `code.json` files and indexes them in Elasticsearch. This is meant to be the main harvester for [Code.gov](https://code.gov) and the [Code.gov API](https://github.com/gsa/code-gov-api).
 
 ## How to use this project